Early Relations between the United States and China. loi 



Next in order of age was the Morrison Education Society. 

 Robert Morrison's life had made a deep impression upon the 

 foreigners in Canton, and they felt that some permanent memorial 

 should be raised to him. In January, 1835, a paper suggesting 

 the formation of a society was circulated and by February 24th, 

 twenty-two signatures of English and Americans and $4,860 

 had been obtained. A provisional committee of six was then 

 appointed, two of whom were Americans. The organization's 

 object was to establish and support schools in China to teach 

 the natives the English language, western learning, and Chris- 

 tianity. Youths of either sex might be taken, the ages preferred 

 being six, eight, and ten years ; pupils might be sent to Malacca, 

 India, Europe, or America for a finishing course. It was to be 

 directed by five trustees, resident in China, but tutors and teachers 

 wxre to be obtained from Europe and the United States.^'' In 

 the first two years of the society's existence, instruction was 

 given to five or six boys, and some aid to Mrs. Giitzlaff, who 

 had gathered a few children arovmd her in Macao. ®^ Applica- 

 tion was early made to the British and Foreign School Society 

 for aid and counsel,^^ and attempts were made to get teachers 

 in England and America. In the latter country Professors 

 Silliman, Goodrich, and Gibbs, all of Yale — whose halls had 

 already furnished China with Parker and Stevens — were 

 appointed a committee to secure an appointee, and after two 

 unsuccessful attempts,^** Rev. Samuel R. Brown, a Yale grad- 

 uate of the class of 1832, was selected. ^*'*' He reached China 

 February 23, 1839, and at once took a few children into his 

 home. With occasional interruptions caused by war and a trip 



°' Proceedings relative to the Formation of the Morrison Education 

 Society, Ch. Rep., 5:373. See too, Williams, Mid. King., 2:341-345. 



"'First Annual Rep., Sept. 27, 1837. Ch. Rep., 6:229, and second 

 annual report, October, 1838, Ch. Rep., 7:301-310. Yung Wing, My Life 

 in China and America, New York, 1909. 



** Chinese Rep., 5 : 378. 



°" Second Annual Report of Morrison Educ. Soc, Oct., 1838, Ch. Rep., 

 7:301-310. 



'""Third Annual Rep. of same, Sept. 29, 1841, Ch. Rep., 10:564-587. 

 See too, Trumbull, Old Time Student Volunteers, p. 114, and Ch. Rep., 

 7 : 550. Griffis, A Maker of the New Orient, is a Biography of Brown. 



